Oil Scandal In October 1929 Albert B. Fall the former Secretary of the Interior under President Warren . Harding, was convicted of accepting bribes in the leasing of U.S. Naval Oil Reserves in Elk Hills California and Teapot Dome Wyoming. He was selling the oil, to oil barons
In October 1929 Albert B. Fall the former Secretary of the Interior under President Warren . Harding, was convicted of accepting bribes in the leasing of U.S. Naval Oil Reserves in Elk Hills California and Teapot Dome Wyoming. He was selling the oil, to oil barons